A. CONNOLLY LIMITED

📉Decliningactive
03860866 · ltd · incorporated 1999-10-18
Investment thesis
Property vehicle with a workable charge structure — clean refinance potential.
Why interesting: Asset-backed; value largely in underlying property; lender engagement likely possible.
Why risky: Dependent on title and valuation due diligence; standard property risks.
Opportunity decay
drifting distress · 6-months
Drifting toward distress — expect more negotiability in 3–6 months, but also more friction.
  • · Lifecycle stage drifting downward
  • · Currently "declining"
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Construction of domestic buildings
Sector: Construction
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 80-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 80). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 26.3y

50/100
clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

  • · Oldest live charge is 26.3 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile
address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
8 officers (4 active, 8 linked, 5 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
8 connected companies via shared directors
69
Filing history
88 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Profitable
Profit before tax £2,346,828

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Profit before tax£2.35M£5.46M
Average employees24624400

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 officers
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (32 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-12-15
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  3. 2025-11-13
    ➖
    CONNOLLY, Marie Frances resigned
    director
  4. 2025-03-21
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  5. 2025-02-28
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    HARRISON, Simon resigned
    director
  6. 2025-02-20
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  7. 2025-02-20
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  8. 2024-12-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2023-12-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2023-04-24
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  11. 2023-04-01
    ➕
    NORBURY, Liam Robert appointed
    director
  12. 2022-12-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2022-03-10
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  14. 2022-02-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2021-04-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2020-10-28
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  17. 2020-10-28
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  18. 2020-10-28
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  19. 2020-10-06
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  20. 2020-09-21
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Handelsbanken PLC
  21. 2019-12-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  22. 2014-05-13
    ➕
    HARRISON, Simon appointed
    director
  23. 2011-10-19
    ➕
    CONNOLLY, Christopher John appointed
    director
  24. 2000-02-21
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
  25. 1999-10-18
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    Company incorporated
    As A. CONNOLLY LIMITED
  26. 1999-10-18
    ➕
    CONNOLLY, Anthony appointed
    secretary
  27. 1999-10-18
    ➕
    CONNOLLY, Anthony appointed
    director
  28. 1999-10-18
    ➕
    HALLMARK SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  29. 1999-10-18
    ➖
    HALLMARK SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  30. 1999-10-18
    ➕
    CONNOLLY, Marie Frances appointed
    director
  31. 1999-10-18
    ➕
    HALLMARK REGISTRARS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  32. 1999-10-18
    ➖
    HALLMARK REGISTRARS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

98/100
Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

FACTORS
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "CONNOLLY" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 27 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 80 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 80 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 27 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 27 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
  • supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

Red flags

clean
No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Group structure

A Connolly Holdings Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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A Connolly Holdings Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
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A. CONNOLLY LIMITED
This company · 03860866

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
A Connolly Holdings Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control06/04/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

🔒Co-director network graph

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Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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8 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1999-10-18
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC41202 — Construction of domestic buildings

Registered office

The Old Dairy
Leed Street
Wigan
WN3 4BW
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-01
Last: 2025-10-18

Officers (4 active · 4 resigned)

CONNOLLY, Anthony→
secretary · appointed 1999-10-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
CONNOLLY, Anthony→
director · ~80y · appointed 1999-10-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
CONNOLLY, Christopher John→
director · ~47y · appointed 2011-10-19
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Active
NORBURY, Liam Robert→
director · ~43y · appointed 2023-04-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HALLMARK SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1999-10-18 · resigned 1999-10-18
Resigned
CONNOLLY, Marie Frances→
director · ~77y · appointed 1999-10-18 · resigned 2025-11-13
Resigned
HARRISON, Simon→
director · ~50y · appointed 2014-05-13 · resigned 2025-02-28
Resigned
HALLMARK REGISTRARS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1999-10-18 · resigned 1999-10-18
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
2
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Handelsbanken
Handelsbanken PLC
A registered charge1 property21/09/2020—
outstanding
HSBC
Hsbc Bank PLC
Debenture1 property21/02/2000—
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Recent filings (88 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-23
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2025-12-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-21
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2025-03-21
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-02-20
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-02-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-24
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-18
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2023-04-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-10-18
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-03-10